Example sentences for: cliché

How can you use “cliché” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Murakami's aim is to "capture illegitimate passion's elusive madness," but he "falls short" (Elizabeth Ward, the Washington Post ). This book lacks the scope of his earlier works, and at times the language dips into cliché, but some reviewers attribute this to a poor translation.

  • These include the Cliché Finder; The Book of Clichés; Cirque de Cliché ; Steve's Clichés; Sports Clichés; Movie Clichés; Dutch Clichés; and the Web page of David Cliché, an official of Canada's Quebecois party.

  • We hear the most political language yet, a near cliché about "the American dream."

  • The atmosphere of civic pride and civic hypocrisy, the mingled air of awe and contempt toward governmental institutions, rings not the bell of cliché but many eerie tintinnabulations: the gongs and chimes of public life, the distinct sounds of what we say, what we know we mean and what we don't know we mean.

  • But it seems likely that this is a cliché that is true of the chattering classes but not true at all of the people who actually go to movies.


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